Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency ...

Trace metals such as iron or zinc that are stored in deep-sea sediments are lost forever to phytoplankton on the ocean ...

A new report by environmental groups lays out a case for banning deep sea mining—and explains why ... how we use tech after the end of its useful life cycle. These are all systems we have ...

It also turns out that the Sargasso was shrouded in lore centuries before inspiring the legendary Bermuda Triangle ... as well as between surface and deep-sea life. It is a gigantic self-creating ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

Biodiversity is depleted and large furrows still lie in the seabed where deep-sea mining equipment operated more than 40 years ago, in findings that suggest it will take the deep sea multiple ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing ... their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such ...

THOSE animals of the deep sea which live habitually in water just above the freezing point, in darkness that is profound, are among the most grotesque and singular of living beings. The fishes ...

As the International Seabed Authority considers the future of deep-sea mining for battery metals ... remote ecosystem with one of life’s most important elements. Unprecedented numbers of ...

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